Meditations upon 2 Timothy 1:7
by Roberto E. Fiad
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
If you ponder the news stories regarding the aftermath of the rise of President Trump with how the Trump haters have reacted, in such a state and spirit of hate, and how irrational have been their communications in public, and their anger, and rage, you may be wondering how things have come so far.
I see not just rage and hate, I see fear.
When events go well for the President, his many enemies reaction hysterically.
Is there an antidote that Trump haters insist on disregarding with these irrational and crazy reactions, such hysterical outbursts of reaction?
So appropriate to meditate this verse these days – is this verse. And why is this beginning statement the truth? What do you think?
Let’s go straight to the verse itself. Let’s look at the flip side of it for those who would disregard it.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power as not given us the spirit of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind.
Let’s not begin analyzing with discussion of the spirit of fear.
Instead, let’s begin to analyze the verse by understanding that very flip side.
We’ll start talking about the spirit of fear that is the fruit, the consequence, the result if you will – of not fear as its own source but rather that the spirit of fear is the end result or outcome of oneself giving one’s own mind and heart to a spirit of hate that pulls in the entrance inside of you of a spirit of unsound or irrational mind, which produces the next to last spirit: this is the spirit of powerlessness, the spirit of weakness, the spirit of impotence.
Now that the spirit of impotence is inside you and influential in you, that then produces the spirit of fear taking possession of your soul.
If you look at this as a chain reaction, you begin with a spirit of hate; that produces a spirit of irrational mind or craziness, or unsound mind; that then proceeds forth to produce the spirit of impotence or weakness, or powerlessness.
Finally, after that progression of spirits entered you, the spirit of fear takes over inside you.
It all begins with hate. It ends with fear. It doesn’t begin with fear and lead to hate.
The original hate leads through a progression of evil spirits that result in fear, which then proceeds to multiply the original hate into many hates, or creates new hates inside your soul.
If you give yourself over to hate, you’re inviting evil spirits that will bring in spirits of unsound mind, which will bring in spirits of impotence, and bring in spirits of fear. And these spirits will multiply themselves over and over again many times – inside you.
If you want evidence of how these progressions unfold, look at the news. Look at how Trump haters crumble and how they present themselves Things don’t go well for haters.
If you want evidence of how these progressions unfold, look at the news. Look at how Trump haters crumble and how they present themselves. Things don’t go well for haters.
If you want to keep your mind sound, if you want to successfully ward off the spirit of fear from taking over you in the inside, focus on the Love of God.
Keep your mind and heart focused on that Love of God if there's not enough Love inside you to keep Hate out.
The instant that Hate gets inside you, you're toast.
